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The effect of oral contraceptives on the apparent vitamin B6 status in some Sudanese women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Eltayeb Y. Salih ,
Asma A. Zein  and
Riad A. Bayoumi
Eltayeb Y. Salih
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, PO Box 102, Khartoum, Sudan
Asma A. Zein
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, PO Box 102, Khartoum, Sudan
Riad A. Bayoumi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, PO Box 102, Khartoum, Sudan
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Abstract

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1. In vitro activation of erythrocyte aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) activity by pyridoxal phosphate was used to assess vitamin B4 nutritional status in forty Sudanese women taking combined, low-dose oral contraceptives (oestrogen-progestogen; OC) and in thirty healthy, non-pregnant women not taking OC.

2. Fourteen (35%) out of forty OC users showed apparent vitamin B4 deficiency.

3. Side-effects associated with OC were more common among the apparently vitamin-B4-deficient OC users than among OC users and non-OC users not deficient in vitamin B4.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , September 1986 , pp. 363 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1986

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